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Re: Ae Freslighe
Reply #1 - Oct 5th, 2006 at 1:02am
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hahaha!  Norm, your explanation makes me realize my learning patterns are under some rock somewhere.  I feel like when my mom tried to teach me how to knit.  Both my brothers picked up the skill while I was still flailing around with pointed sticks.  Yet, I bought a book to learn how to tat and had no trouble teaching myself and I now am an expert knitter.   

okay, I'll take the first part that includes the formula and see where I go with this Irish art.
  
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Ae Freslighe
Feb 19th, 2004 at 4:29am
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Ae Freslighe (ay fresh lee) is a Celtic form of poetry:

Each stanza is a quatrain of seven syllables. Lines one and three rhyme with a triple (three syllable) rhyme and two and four use a double (two syllable) rhyme. The poem should end with the first syllable word or the complete line that it began with.

x x x x (x x a)
x x x x x (x b)
x x x x (x x a)
x x x x x (x b)

It may be more than one quatrain (as mine is here). 
 
The scheme: 
 
x x x x (x-x-a) 
x x x x x (x-b) 
x x x x (x-x-a) 
x x x x x (x-b) 

Here is one of mine:

Whispered

Whisper while I ‘m abstaining
from such things that might disturb
those who lie of love, feigning...
my love will shout and  reverb.

Shower with me, alluring,
photograph doctored slightly;
a poem to be assuring,
showing love - dried off lightly.

Freshly taste me, preserving
things fresh and ever-crisper;
sense that I am conserving?
love through senses has whispered.

© Norman S. Pollack 
 
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